A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.

The truest self-respect is not to think of self.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.